False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
